Whirling Dervish Drawing

Large-scale original abstract drawing. "Whirling Dervish" green and black ballpoint pen. Conceptual modern drawing concerning repetitive motion, movement, nirvana. Signed & stamped with my embossing seal in the lower right corner of drawing. Signed and titled on the back in graphite. WHIRLING DERVISH, ballpoint pen ink on Strathmore 500 bristol board, 16.5x27 inches Ships rolled with acid-free glassine in a tube then inside of a box. Lines that blur across the paper. The movement creates a visual rhythm on the page. Each line begins and ends at the same point, revolving in circles between, looping, arcing, swirling, overlapping. The motion of the pen becomes less about any definitive path and more about the disappearance of paper. All in the pursuit of nirvana, the perfect, or simple a moment of mental clarity. Many pin holes give a clue as to the direction and number of line plots in the drawing. I lost track of how many line plots were drawn. My drawing technique utilizes custom made drawing wheels held down by pins which drag across the page as I draw creating the haze of ink on the surface.